Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-06-03
OUR HOPE AND PRIDE.
4 Grand Gathering OF Fifteen Hundred
Public School Children at the
Opera House.
Another Year of Successful Educational
Work Ended-Brllliant Closing Exer-
cises of the High School.

The children of the public schools Of
this city had royal time of it Friday
1t was the closing of the schools for the
summer holidays, and they were, for the
time being, of more Importance than
anybody or anything in Fort Worth.
They were the lions of the day. The
cynosure Of ell eyes, who could deny that
there mast be something OF peculiar
merit attached to them, school children
as they were, to attract all this respectful
homage. Was not the opera house
crowded, like it never is, even when
famous stars exhibit, to see them in con-
vention assembled? Surely they had
cause to feel happy.
In the afternoon the principals and
teachers of all the buildings except the
high school marshalled their pupils into
line and, repairing to the nearest conve-
nient spot, boarded the street-Cars
for the opera house. With great kindness
the owners of the lines transported them
without price, and for more than an hour
the general public had to walk. 1t was
no light task to seat so many, but it was
done handsomely, good many Of the
little ones sitting two in a chair. 1t
looked as if the swarm would never end.
The balcony was crowded TO its utmost
capacity with spectators, the ma
iority of whom were ladies. The
first on the stage were the pupils
Of the Belknap street schoeI, Professor
Mann, principal. A compAhy of his boys
dressed Ia militaire, caSrying rifles (not
daUgerous) occupied She rear of the
stage, the little ones in front. They
CirCled around It msrching in goodEtime
to sac music of sspianO, showing that
they Asd been carefully drilled, az did all
who csme after wards. After them came
tue children of buildings VII, l, Ill,
". and v, principals, Profess
sors Robbins, Willing. Williams
Thompson and Haywood. AS they came
and went in quick succession they seemed
to form atlivlng sea Of bright ald happy
young faces.
-PrCf. Hqgg announced the number Of
fhose entitled to promotion, which in no
building was under 70 per cent OF the to-
tai. aTheir cards of promotion were
given them, and they went home happy in
the thought of freedom and long summer
days ofhappy idlesse.R e. ~.
HIGR sCHoo14GRADU4FEss ~
At night the opera ae6se was sgain
croWded1 The audience this time was
composed mainly of adtlts, who filed the
lower fieer and balcony, while up in the
cock loft sat that great American terror,
the gallery god. He was there in force,
and was the only thing that msrred the
occasion. The truth is that his diabol-
zeal cat calls were such an outrageous
nuisance that big policeman should
have been sent up 10 lead the whole lot
down. Everybody was annoyed Cy the
miserable racket.
Butthe other floors were filed with the
best people of the city, the fathers, and
mothers, ana aunts, and cousins, and
friends and sweethesrts, pornaps) Of the
sweet girl graduates who, with their
teachers, occupied tbe stSge-a vision OF
ioyelineSs and purity as spotless as the
white they wore. Professor Alex Hogg,
superintendent OF the schools, sat among
them, as did their beloved teach
eTs, Mrs. Walden and Miss Latham,
who from the beginning 10 the END of their
high school career, have been earnest
not only in developing their mental
gifts, but in moulding them into useful
and refined types Of the highest woman
hood. Professor Hogg introduced each
one of the fair graduates, giving the
theme Of each ESSAY. There was one
young gentleman from the BOYS High
School, but ne wore lonesome LOOK,
though performing his part satisfactorily.
The following programme was duly
gone through with:
PRAYER.